Knitted fabric.



F. CLEWLEY. KNITTED FABRIC.

APPLICATION man Aue.24, 1914.

Patented May Il, 1915.

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FRANK CLEWLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T0 SIMON FRIEDBERGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTED FABRIC;

T0 aZZvcmmtma/y concern.' l

Be it known that I, FRANK Cranvnnr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and

5 State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful improvement in Knitted Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference beingliad to the accompanying drawings, which fo'rin a part of this specification.

The object of my invention'is to provide a new and improved fabric especially adapted for towels, wash cloths and other similar goods which are frequently soiled and wetted and which it is important, from a sanitary standpoint, should be of such open mesh as to be capable of being quickly and thoroughly dried.

In a patent issued tome February 16, 1904No, 752,033, a fabric of this character is set forth, but such fabric is open to certain objectibns. The chains of knitted loops v are so woven that the individual loops are not independently bound in and consequently when one loop is cut the whole chain may be raveled. Further, the open spaces are inore pronounced than is necessary to provide a thoroughly sanitary fabric and in handling the fabric such open spaces afford and torn.

The object of my invention is to provide a knitted fabric consisting of awcft coinpi sed of chains of knitted loops and a warp of filling threads in which the loops are so formed in that itis impossible, by cutting or removing one loop, toi-ave] the correspond Ving chain, and in which the open spaces are rendered less pronounced by causing the weft threads, at intervals, to extend between "adjacent chains. e

A preferred embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which- L5 k,Figure l is an enlarged .face view, and

Fig 2a face view on a smaller scale, of a fabric embodying my invention.

vI have shownin the drawings, a portion of the body of the fabric adjacent to the 50 fringe, and also a portion of the fringe,

showing 'how the manipulation of the weft threads is varied to form the fringe, althugh itvwill be understood that the main invention is in the body of the fabric.

The body m ofthe fabric is 'formed of two specification of Letters Patent.

opportunity for the fabric becoming caught Patented May 11, 1915.

Application filed August 24, 1914. Serial No. 858,237.

series of weft threads a and 5 and two series of warp or filling threads c and d.' Each -weft thread c is caused to forni two loops chain are two other loops formed 'by an' other weft thread Z), which is caused in a similar manner to be carried, after each two loops formed by it, back and forth between the first chain and the adjacent chain on the other side. In the body of the fabric each filling thread extends back and forth between two adjacent chains for a 'number of courses and is then carried across the fabric to the farther-most chain of one of the next adjacent pairs of chains, thence being carried back and forth between the outermost chains of the two adjacent pairs for about the saine number of'courses as that above mentioned, and thencel extendsback. and forth between the chains of the second pair, and so on thus producing alternate closed blocks and spaces which are-open save for the crossing weft threads hereinbefore mentioned.

It is believed that the above1 description,`

the upper loop of chain x, thence extends.

under, around and over one of the filling lthreads c and the third loop ofchain m formed by weft thread b, thence up, over and around itselfr at the base of the first loop of chain andthence down to complete the second loop of chain m, passing over the same filling thread c and weft thread b and through the third loop of chain a: under the samefthreads and across to the chain w, where, after passing under one of the filling threads of, `it again extends up and down, as before described, to form the third and fourth loops of the chaiiw. vItftle` extends back to chain and extends up and down to form the fifth and sixth loops of chain Similarly one ofthe weft threads b is caused to form the first and second loops of chain y and the third and fourth' loops of chain and then the fifth and sixth loops of chain y. Following one of vthe filling threads c, starting at 'the top between chains Lr and ;z/,

it will be seen that the thread b extends backof the first-loop of chain y, thence through the second loop of'chain y, thence across and through the second loop of chain ,'thence between weft threads'and .b and across to chain y, thence back of the third loop of chain y and through the fourth loop of chain y, thence across through the fourth loops of chains .r and w to chain 11, thence extends through one of the loops of 'chain o and again across, back ofY the fifth loops of chalns w and m to chain y, and so on, it beingobserved that the filling thread c extends back land forth between chains and y for a number' of courses and thence between chains c and y for a number of courses, and thence between chains 'v and w for a number of courses. Followingthe filling thread d, starting at the top between chains y and .c it will be notedv that this thread extends, similarly to thread c, first backand forth between chains y and z for va number of courses, thence back and 'fo'rth between chains z and `w for a' number of courses, andl thence back land forth between chains w and m' for a number o f courses. When the frin e n' of the fabric'is reached, the weft. threas are no longer carried across between adjacent chains, while the lling threads are carried back and forth only between certain adjacent chains, thus separatin the chains intoifts of three. Thus the le t hand fringe -section is formed of three weft threads a, b and a and two filling' threads c and d, the loops of the chain c being formed wholly by one of the threads a, the loo s of the vchain w` being formed wholly y one of the threadshand the loops of the chain m being formed -wholly by another of the threads a; the chains u and w being connected by one of the filling threads 0 and the chains w and :a being connected by one of the filling threads d. Throughout the. fringe the chain fr of the left hand fringe section is unconnected with the adjacent fringe section either by the weft threads or 55 the filling threads and the two fringe sections aretherefore entirely disconnected one from the other.l

While I have differentiated the weft threads@ from the weft threads o by sec- 60 tion-lining the one and not the other, it will be understood that this is done merely to asv sist the eye in, distinguishing the two threads in the drawings, it being understood that these .threads are similar one to the other B5 and interlac with each other and with the knitters Le designated weft threads and-thlb,l

, of which is composed oflrnitted loops 4seine formed of a number of parallel chains lback and forth between and interlacedjwi filling threads infprecisely the same-way; Also the twoflling threads c'fand"clarel f like character and are given different 'refe `ence letters because, in the fabric shown, two adjacent filling threads are employed in ea'ch closed'block and inV each fringe section.` i y It will bc understood that the numberyofff chains in each closed block, the number of dili'crent-filling threads in each closed block, the number of chains spanned by the filli" threads, and the number of chains in e" fringe section, 'may be" varied without parting from the invention. 4 y j 11 The method' of operating the needyl'e` fi j .whereby the above fabric will beA formedff", will be apparent to one skilled. in their:` and as such operation forms no'part of'th invention, the same is not described. l While the threads forming the knitted` loops arc called weft threads and the crossy Y threads warp or Filling threads,`it shouldber noted th: t the cross threads-would byfsom loopeforming threads warp threads. Having now fully described my invention y what I claim and desire to protect by Lette Patent is: l ,f

l. A kntted lfabric comprising, a' we formed of a plurality of parallel chainseach of which are formed ofone 4weftthread some of which vare formed ofvanother thread, and a warp consisting of 'l' threads extending back and forthA between a adjacent chains -in such manner as-to leave, at intervals between adjacent chains, speen, devoid of filling threads,'each of which-ex` vtends along several knitted loops ofachin certain of said weft threadseach extending across certainlof said spacesand forming loops in a plurality of chains. M

2. A knitted fabric comprising a fait of which comprises successi-ve loops foi'nied of one weft thread and successive' loo formed of another weft thread,.each of sud weft threads extending at intervals between `different chains and forming successi-ve `loop. in both chains,and a warp formed of-flling threads extending back `andy forth' betwee and interlaced with the chains." j

3. A knittedffabric comprising a weft formed of a plurality of parallel chainseach of which is composed of a plurality of loo'pq formed of one weft thread alternatingwith a plurality of loopsv formed of another'l weft thread, each weft thread extendin atinter vals between adjacent chains an forming certain of the loops of'both chains and la Warp formed of Afilling threads vextendint the chains. .f '4.a A knitted `fabric comprising a weft formed of a plurality of parallel chains comeL i. posed of threads each of which formstwo 133x loops of one chain.I thence extends across in one direction and forms two loops of an adjacent chain and thence extends back in the opposite direction and forms t-Wo additional loops of the first chain, and so on, the said two pairs of loops of the first chain being connected to two intervening loops formed by another similarly extending thread, 'and a Warp formed of filling threads extending back and forth between and interlaced With the chains. 1

5. Alrnitted fabricthebodyportion of Which contains a weft composed of a plurality of parallel chains each of which is composed of knitted loops some of which are formed of one weft thread and son e of Which are formed of another weft thread, each of said weft threads extending to an adjacent chain and forming certain of the loops therein, and the fringe portion of Which contains a weft composed of a plurality of parallel chains each lof which is a continuation of one of the chains of the body portion and is composed of knitted loops formed of a single weft thread, said body portion and fringe containing a Warp formed of filling threads extending back and forth between and interlaced With the chains.

6. A knitted fabric comprising a weft along the fringe portion of the fabric, and

a Warp formed of filling threads extending back and forth between and interlaced With the chains.

7. A. knitted formed of parallel fabric comprising a weft chains each of which is composed, along the body portion of the fabric, of knitted loops some of which are formed of one Weft thread and some of Which are formed of another Weft thread, and, along the fringe portion of the fabric, of knitted loops of one only of s. :d threads, and a Warp formed of filling threads extending back and forth between and interlaced With the chains.v

. In testimony of which invention, l have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, on this 21st day of August, 1914.

FRANK CLEWLEY.

Witnesses:

M. M. HAMILTON,

E. E. WALL. 

